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Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down [Hardcover]

Jo Brand (Author)
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Release Date: 30 Sep 2010
The Stand-Up while Sitting Down Years...

Jo Brand tells the story of how she crawled to fame and fortune, managed to persuade someone to marry her and had some children at an age when she should have been in a bath chair on the seafront. In this second volume of her memoirs, Jo recounts wild times on the comedy circuit, the attempts to tart her up for the TV screen, running the marathon, rally driving, her numerous, occasionally extremely inebriated, Edinburgh festival appearances, her 'acting' career, and much, much more.

Jo Brand is one of our best-loved comedians, according to a quote she made up. This memoir is full of hard-won wisdom, hilarity and her views on life, laughs, friendships and all the good and bad things in the world. If she was Prime Minister, the country would be in even more of a mess than it is.

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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Review (30 Sep 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0755355261
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755355266
  • Product Dimensions: 16 x 3.7 x 24.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 167,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jo Brand is a stand-up comic with many TV and radio shows to her name. She is also an acclaimed novelist. She is married with two children and lives in south London.
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars So funny 1 Oct 2010
By Natalie Mason
Format:Hardcover
I love Jo Brand - comedian, writer, mum, actor, former psychiatric nurse - the woman's a legend! I am a huge fan of her comedy and it's this area that I'm really interested in. This books goes into loads of detail about how Jo started out in stand up and what she had to go through in order to become the success that she is today. Some of her early bookings sound like they were torture (I had no idea hecklers could be so horrible!) and it was interesting to hear how nervous she was when she first started - something that I don't think comes across in her performances at all. Really fascinating stuff, sprinkled with quite a lot of naughty stories, this is vintage Jo Brand.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Comedy superstar 1 Oct 2010
By Bookworm
Format:Hardcover
I really enjoyed Jo's first book and I wanted to hear more about her stand up career so I couldn't wait to read this one. I've nearly finished it and it's fantastic. Jo tells us all about how her she decided to start doing full time stand-up comedy, her memorable gigs - successes and disasters! - going on tv and about her family life too. I loved reading about her early performances, all the celebrities she knows and about how she juggles her home life with her career - a side to Jo that I didn't know about before I read this. All told in the lovely warm style that I so enjoyed in her first book. Brilliant.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Really Good Fun 4 Oct 2010
By Grace Jackson
Format:Hardcover
I read this over the weekend after having read Jo's first book Look Back In Hunger which I bought in paperback and I SO enjoyed. This hardback looks lovely with some great pictures. I love this book, Jo is so warm and funny and generous, it's like meeting your best friend. In this one she writes about her career as a comic from when she first started on TV on Friday Night Live right up to now including all her touring, and stand up work, television radio, Edinburgh gigs, Getting On, Trinny and Susannah, running the London Marathon, rally driving. Her Ode to the Menopause made me laugh out loud, rather embarrassingly. It's full of amazing anecdotes and insights and she's very open about her family and getting married, friends. I love the story where her daughter asks her 'Are you Jo Brand?' Priceless. If you want some sunshine and laughter in your life then read this book.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Cant Stand up for Sitting Down
As you would expect from this funny lady. Rattling good read and not half as profane as I expected. I think she has mellowed from her younger days.
Published 12 days ago by J. RANCE
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
She's so funny and clever, in my opinion. I didn't actually realise when I read the first book that there was a second, so I'm a very happy customer.
Published 2 months ago by Um....this is new
5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant read! Recommendation!
Overall this a fantastic book to read! A light, interesting and a hilarious read. A great insight to the world of comedy and Jo Brand's life as a comedian. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Julian Bruton
5.0 out of 5 stars A great, funny read
Jo is a very intelligent woman and I loved this well written memoir which is witty and amusing. She's led an interesting life within the comedy world (and certainly outside it as... Read more
Published 5 months ago by J Saunders
3.0 out of 5 stars not a natural sory teller...
i like jo brand, and bought the book expecting some witty stories/anecdotes etc. however jo appears not to be a natural story teller and i found the book more bland than brand. Read more
Published 5 months ago by kristan morris
4.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the first volume..............
I have previously read and reviewed Jo Brand's first volume of her memoirs Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography and made it clear that I never used to particularly care much for... Read more
Published 9 months ago by IOWBOY
2.0 out of 5 stars Book Review from AntonySimpson.com
Can't Stand Up for Sitting Down is Jo Brand's second autobiography following on from Look Back in Hunger. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Antony Simpson
4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful autobiography
The life of a comedian is one that is usually touched by a lot of sadness that few ever hear about as they're expected to be funny all of the time so when I embark on an... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Gareth Wilson - Falcata Times Blog
2.0 out of 5 stars rushed
I enjoy Jo Brand's work. I think she is a funny, articulate, clever woman who has a lot to say and who says it in an interesting way. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley
5.0 out of 5 stars A good follow up book
This is really a good follow up book and covers the next phase of Jo's life. A good read, full of chuckles.
Published on 20 May 2011 by pendle
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